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Part of the problem, for me, technically is that there is no equivalent canon in the ECC to the one in the western code for the canonical religious status of "hermit"....It was on those grounds that I was pushed away in my own Church. Granted I never was allowed to actually speak to my bishop and I don't think the letters I wrote ever got to him either. They have all remained unanswered including those written by my spiritual father. This was all before the Metropolitan became so terribly and finally ill.

Is this an example of what happens when Rome creates "Eastern catholic Churches": they make up their own rules blending East & West?

How would this differ from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when they create the Western rite Orthodox and make up their own rules blending East and West?

Part of the problem, for me, technically is that there is no equivalent canon in the ECC to the one in the western code for the canonical religious status of "hermit"....It was on those grounds that I was pushed away in my own Church. Granted I never was allowed to actually speak to my bishop and I don't think the letters I wrote ever got to him either. They have all remained unanswered including those written by my spiritual father. This was all before the Metropolitan became so terribly and finally ill.

Is this an example of what happens when Rome creates "Eastern catholic Churches": they make up their own rules blending East & West?

How would this differ from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when they create the Western rite Orthodox and make up their own rules blending East and West?

The WRO "blend" to weed out heresy and restore to Orthodoxy, and even then, that is not necessarily done: the Antiochian WRO borrow the epiclesis from the rite of Constantinople to make it explicite, but ROCOR takes the epiclesis from the Gallican missal IIRC (ALL Western missals except the Roman have a full and explicit epiclesis).

The Vatican, in contrast, promulgates a Code of canon law, for instance, in Latin, for the Eastern Churches, which mold them into the theoretical model Ultramontanism imagines for the other patriarchates, which has no basis in history or practice. That's the purpose of the CCEO, to put Ultramontanist theory into practice so it can enter history, and develop a history.

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Part of the problem, for me, technically is that there is no equivalent canon in the ECC to the one in the western code for the canonical religious status of "hermit"....It was on those grounds that I was pushed away in my own Church. Granted I never was allowed to actually speak to my bishop and I don't think the letters I wrote ever got to him either. They have all remained unanswered including those written by my spiritual father. This was all before the Metropolitan became so terribly and finally ill.

Is this an example of what happens when Rome creates "Eastern catholic Churches": they make up their own rules blending East & West?

How would this differ from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when they create the Western rite Orthodox and make up their own rules blending East and West?

Part of the problem, for me, technically is that there is no equivalent canon in the ECC to the one in the western code for the canonical religious status of "hermit"....It was on those grounds that I was pushed away in my own Church. Granted I never was allowed to actually speak to my bishop and I don't think the letters I wrote ever got to him either. They have all remained unanswered including those written by my spiritual father. This was all before the Metropolitan became so terribly and finally ill.

Is this an example of what happens when Rome creates "Eastern catholic Churches": they make up their own rules blending East & West?

How would this differ from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when they create the Western rite Orthodox and make up their own rules blending East and West?

Stanley I agree with you. Both are wrong.

I'd ask you how Orthodoxy is wrong, but I wonder if it would derail the thread.

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Part of the problem, for me, technically is that there is no equivalent canon in the ECC to the one in the western code for the canonical religious status of "hermit"....It was on those grounds that I was pushed away in my own Church. Granted I never was allowed to actually speak to my bishop and I don't think the letters I wrote ever got to him either. They have all remained unanswered including those written by my spiritual father. This was all before the Metropolitan became so terribly and finally ill.

Is this an example of what happens when Rome creates "Eastern catholic Churches": they make up their own rules blending East & West?

How would this differ from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when they create the Western rite Orthodox and make up their own rules blending East and West?

The WRO "blend" to weed out heresy and restore to Orthodoxy, and even then, that is not necessarily done: the Antiochian WRO borrow the epiclesis from the rite of Constantinople to make it explicite, but ROCOR takes the epiclesis from the Gallican missal IIRC (ALL Western missals except the Roman have a full and explicit epiclesis).

The Vatican, in contrast, promulgates a Code of canon law, for instance, in Latin, for the Eastern Churches, which mold them into the theoretical model Ultramontanism imagines for the other patriarchates, which has no basis in history or practice. That's the purpose of the CCEO, to put Ultramontanist theory into practice so it can enter history, and develop a history.

Yes. And as the eastern Catholic Patriarchs emerge so will a distinct set of canons. At that point there may be even more explicit canons added to the western code.

Part of the problem, for me, technically is that there is no equivalent canon in the ECC to the one in the western code for the canonical religious status of "hermit"....It was on those grounds that I was pushed away in my own Church. Granted I never was allowed to actually speak to my bishop and I don't think the letters I wrote ever got to him either. They have all remained unanswered including those written by my spiritual father. This was all before the Metropolitan became so terribly and finally ill.

Is this an example of what happens when Rome creates "Eastern catholic Churches": they make up their own rules blending East & West?

How would this differ from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when they create the Western rite Orthodox and make up their own rules blending East and West?

The WRO "blend" to weed out heresy and restore to Orthodoxy, and even then, that is not necessarily done: the Antiochian WRO borrow the epiclesis from the rite of Constantinople to make it explicite, but ROCOR takes the epiclesis from the Gallican missal IIRC (ALL Western missals except the Roman have a full and explicit epiclesis).

The Vatican, in contrast, promulgates a Code of canon law, for instance, in Latin, for the Eastern Churches, which mold them into the theoretical model Ultramontanism imagines for the other patriarchates, which has no basis in history or practice. That's the purpose of the CCEO, to put Ultramontanist theory into practice so it can enter history, and develop a history.

Yes. And as the eastern Catholic Patriarchs emerge so will a distinct set of canons.

Catholic Church=Orthodoxy. And we have no interest in playing a role your fantasies: good tissue grafted into those weasy, TB lungs won't resuscitate that sick old man.

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Right: and in good Apostolic fashion, consensus was nearly impossible to achieve. We've been struggling with it ever since: the west in the wider world of peoples: the east in their little ethnic enclaves.

I am amused by the fact that you think cramped, wizened, philetic lungs are somehow healthier than the lungs of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

We've been struggling with it ever since: the west in the wider world of peoples: the east in their little ethnic enclaves.

Yes, the Vatican went wherever the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisistions could stamp out the local languages and make them adopt Latin and its derivatives.

But Russia alone did a good job matching, without stamping out the locals:it doesn't show the expansion of the Patriarchate of Moscow into Californiaor Finmark/Norwaynor the Church of Japan.and we'll leave out the North Poleand the south poleAnd then there's the Pope (the real and original one) of All Africa, whose Holy Synod has bishops from Cape to Cairo.and without a single empire taking up the sword to spread its creed.and the Patriarch of Antioch, and All the East (that is, as far east as India), etc. etc. etc.

I am amused by the fact that you think cramped, wizened, philetic lungs are somehow healthier than the lungs of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

those cramped, wizened philetic Latin lungs are nowhere as healthy as the lungs of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church connected to a myriad of tongues..

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And you still cannot really address the huge difference in numbers or the fact that Orthodoxy, in reality, appears to be shrinking...or that, for example, half of the Catholics who convert to Orthodoxy eventually leave.

So you get all the face time you want here but in reality you are signifying nothing beside the sound and fury: Pretty noise if you're into that sort of thing.

And you still cannot really address the huge difference in numbers or the fact that Orthodoxy, in reality, appears to be shrinking...or that, for example, half of the Catholics who convert to Orthodoxy eventually leave.

So you get all the face time you want here but in reality you are signifying nothing beside the sound and fury: Pretty noise if you're into that sort of thing.

And you still cannot really address the huge difference in numbers or the fact that Orthodoxy, in reality, appears to be shrinking...or that, for example, half of the Catholics who convert to Orthodoxy eventually leave.

So you get all the face time you want here but in reality you are signifying nothing beside the sound and fury: Pretty noise if you're into that sort of thing.

And you still cannot really address the huge difference in numbers or the fact that Orthodoxy, in reality, appears to be shrinking...or that, for example, half of the Catholics who convert to Orthodoxy eventually leave.

So you get all the face time you want here but in reality you are signifying nothing beside the sound and fury: Pretty noise if you're into that sort of thing.

M.

Orthodoxy is shrinking and half of Roman Catholics who convert to Orthodoxy tend to leave? Would you mind providing statistics to back up both statements? Are you talking about the U.S. or worldwide?

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those cramped, wizened philetic Latin lungs are nowhere as healthy as the lungs of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church connected to a myriad of tongues..

You don't get to claim the miaphysites as your own.

Sorry. Orthodoxy is a Greek Rite only club (yeah, WRO exists, but come on. It's about as big as Anglican Use Catholicism. They're converting by the DOZENS!).

And I have been to Mass in Syriac, Slavonic, Latin, English, and Spanish. Greek Rite (Slavonic, English, and Spanish), Maronite Syriac Rite (Syriac and English), and Roman Rite (Latin, English, and Spanish). And there are tons more.

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"And because they have nothing better to do, they take cushion and chairs to Rome. And while the Pope is saying liturgy, they go, 'Oh, oh, oh, filioque!' And the Pope say, 'Filioque? That-uh sound nice! I think I divide-uh the Church over it!'" - Comrade Real Presence

(Speaking as a miaphysite) Sorry, I'm not sure I follow, could you please clarify?

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So you get all the face time you want here but in reality you are signifying nothing beside the sound and fury: Pretty noise if you're into that sort of thing.

Better than that drum beat out of the Vatican.

In the last days, the Church will dwindle to nothing, to prepare for the Second Coming. If we are living in the last days, who am I to dispute it?

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And you still cannot really address the huge difference in numbers or the fact that Orthodoxy, in reality, appears to be shrinking...or that, for example, half of the Catholics who convert to Orthodoxy eventually leave.

So you get all the face time you want here but in reality you are signifying nothing beside the sound and fury: Pretty noise if you're into that sort of thing.

M.

I rather like many of the images he has posted.

That's why I called it "pretty" noise...

you're into pretty colors

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Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth

And you still cannot really address the huge difference in numbers or the fact that Orthodoxy, in reality, appears to be shrinking...or that, for example, half of the Catholics who convert to Orthodoxy eventually leave.

So you get all the face time you want here but in reality you are signifying nothing beside the sound and fury: Pretty noise if you're into that sort of thing.

M.

I rather like many of the images he has posted.

That's why I called it "pretty" noise...

you're into pretty colors

That's quite a collection of kool-aid you have there, sir. I'm going to have to ask that you pull over.

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Sorry. Orthodoxy is a Greek Rite only club (yeah, WRO exists, but come on. It's about as big as Anglican Use Catholicism. They're converting by the DOZENS!).

And I have been to Mass in Syriac, Slavonic, Latin, English, and Spanish. Greek Rite (Slavonic, English, and Spanish), Maronite Syriac Rite (Syriac and English), and Roman Rite (Latin, English, and Spanish). And there are tons more.

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Sorry. Orthodoxy is a Greek Rite only club (yeah, WRO exists, but come on. It's about as big as Anglican Use Catholicism. They're converting by the DOZENS!).

And I have been to Mass in Syriac, Slavonic, Latin, English, and Spanish. Greek Rite (Slavonic, English, and Spanish), Maronite Syriac Rite (Syriac and English), and Roman Rite (Latin, English, and Spanish). And there are tons more.

They say otherwise, and that's between us and them. When we want the your opinion of that matter, we'll give it to you.

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then come and be a happy panda

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Sorry. Orthodoxy is a Greek Rite only club (yeah, WRO exists, but come on. It's about as big as Anglican Use Catholicism. They're converting by the DOZENS!).

And I have been to Mass in Syriac, Slavonic, Latin, English, and Spanish. Greek Rite (Slavonic, English, and Spanish), Maronite Syriac Rite (Syriac and English), and Roman Rite (Latin, English, and Spanish). And there are tons more.

When your hierarchs and theirs concelebrate, or there is a synod in which you acknowledge each other to be orthodox, give me a call.

Otherwise don't spout things that aren't true but you wish are true.

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"And because they have nothing better to do, they take cushion and chairs to Rome. And while the Pope is saying liturgy, they go, 'Oh, oh, oh, filioque!' And the Pope say, 'Filioque? That-uh sound nice! I think I divide-uh the Church over it!'" - Comrade Real Presence

So you show up in my realities which is a whole lot worse than any fantasy...ya know...

Your "reality" is a worse case fantasy.

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When your hierarchs and theirs concelebrate, or there is a synod in which you acknowledge each other to be orthodox, give me a call.

Otherwise don't spout things that aren't true but you wish are true.

Actually, the EOs and OOs have concelebrated before.

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Sorry. Orthodoxy is a Greek Rite only club (yeah, WRO exists, but come on. It's about as big as Anglican Use Catholicism. They're converting by the DOZENS!).

And I have been to Mass in Syriac, Slavonic, Latin, English, and Spanish. Greek Rite (Slavonic, English, and Spanish), Maronite Syriac Rite (Syriac and English), and Roman Rite (Latin, English, and Spanish). And there are tons more.

I have taken communion from the Syriac Patriarch's own hand, he knowing that I am EO. I could go on, but then it's none of your business and doesn't concern you.

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Right: and in good Apostolic fashion, consensus was nearly impossible to achieve. We've been struggling with it ever since: the west in the wider world of peoples: the east in their little ethnic enclaves.

I am amused by the fact that you think cramped, wizened, philetic lungs are somehow healthier than the lungs of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

M.

Considering that until Pope John Paul II there hadn't been a non-Italian pope for centuries and that the median age of modern popes has been around social security age, that comment about 'cramped, wizened, philetic lungs' is tough to take without a chuckle from our side.

First of all those people are OO, so that you'll have to take up with us.

But I think that's just a part of their cultrue, whereas in Catholicism these liturgical reforms are for the sake conforming to modern-day society.

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First of all those people are OO, so that you'll have to take up with us.

But I think that's just a part of their cultrue, whereas in Catholicism these liturgical reforms are for the sake conforming to modern-day society.

Are you sure that they are OO? What group are they with? Are they in communion with the EO or not? Anyway, you seem to justify this dancing, singing, clapping of hands and swaying to and fro by saying that it is part of their culture. But it is true, isn't it, that "modern-day" western society is part of the culture of many Roman Catholics?

Are you sure that they are OO? What group are they with? Are they in communion with the EO or not? Anyway, you seem to justify this dancing, singing, clapping of hands and swaying to and fro by saying that it is part of their culture. But it is true, isn't it, that "modern-day" western society is part of the culture of many Roman Catholics?

Yes, I am sure they are OO because the priest is wearing Coptic vestments and in the background you can see a picture of HH Pope Shenouda. No, these people are not in communion with the EO, no OO bishops are in communion with EO bishops. Or at least, not yet.

Secondly, these people are simply worshipping the way their ancestors did, but in an Orthodox Christian liturgical setting. As opposed to the RCC, where traditional liturgics are seeing a Protestantization. I don't write this post in a polemical spirit, I am merely trying to answer your question to the best of my abilities.

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Are you sure that they are OO? What group are they with? Are they in communion with the EO or not? Anyway, you seem to justify this dancing, singing, clapping of hands and swaying to and fro by saying that it is part of their culture. But it is true, isn't it, that "modern-day" western society is part of the culture of many Roman Catholics?

Yes, I am sure they are OO because the priest is wearing Coptic vestments and in the background you can see a picture of HH Pope Shenouda. No, these people are not in communion with the EO, no OO bishops are in communion with EO bishops. Or at least, not yet.

Secondly, these people are simply worshipping the way their ancestors did, but in an Orthodox Christian liturgical setting. As opposed to the RCC, where traditional liturgics are seeing a Protestantization. I don't write this post in a polemical spirit, I am merely trying to answer your question to the best of my abilities.

Yes, I see now that they are Coptic Orthodox. Do you object to their style of worship or would the EO Church object to their style of worship in the case of a reunion?

Are you sure that they are OO? What group are they with? Are they in communion with the EO or not? Anyway, you seem to justify this dancing, singing, clapping of hands and swaying to and fro by saying that it is part of their culture. But it is true, isn't it, that "modern-day" western society is part of the culture of many Roman Catholics?

Yes, I am sure they are OO because the priest is wearing Coptic vestments and in the background you can see a picture of HH Pope Shenouda. No, these people are not in communion with the EO, no OO bishops are in communion with EO bishops. Or at least, not yet.

Secondly, these people are simply worshipping the way their ancestors did, but in an Orthodox Christian liturgical setting. As opposed to the RCC, where traditional liturgics are seeing a Protestantization. I don't write this post in a polemical spirit, I am merely trying to answer your question to the best of my abilities.

Yes, I see now that they are Coptic Orthodox. Do you object to their style of worship or would the EO Church object to their style of worship in the case of a reunion?

I should hope that Severian doesn't object, since he's in communion with them, being Coptic Orthodox.

As for me, I wouldn't object to that style of worship, in the event of union.

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Yes, I see now that they are Coptic Orthodox. Do you object to their style of worship or would the EO Church object to their style of worship in the case of a reunion?

I am not used to that culture and that form of worship, so it is fairly new to me. I love the Ethiopian/Eritrean Orthodox worship where the faithful play drums, dance, clap, etc. (like in this video), and that's because that is the traditional worship style of my Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox brothers, so I assume the same applies within the Orthodox community in Nairobi. As per the EOs objecting to it, I am not sure, sorry. But overall, no, I do not object to that form of worship.

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Yes, I see now that they are Coptic Orthodox. Do you object to their style of worship or would the EO Church object to their style of worship in the case of a reunion?

I am not used to that culture and that form of worship, so it is fairly new to me. I love the Ethiopian/Eritrean Orthodox worship where the faithful play drums, dance, clap, etc. (like in this video), and that's because that is the traditional worship style of my Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox brothers, so I assume the same applies within the Orthodox community in Nairobi. As per the EOs objecting to it, I am not sure, sorry. But overall, no, I do not object to that form of worship.

somewhere here we have a thread with the local EO bishop or Pope Parthenios or Theodore, I don't recall which, with a congregation of EO Kenyans, similarly with drums. HH didn't seem to object.

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Right: and in good Apostolic fashion, consensus was nearly impossible to achieve. We've been struggling with it ever since: the west in the wider world of peoples: the east in their little ethnic enclaves.

I am amused by the fact that you think cramped, wizened, philetic lungs are somehow healthier than the lungs of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

M.

Considering that until Pope John Paul II there hadn't been a non-Italian pope for centuries and that the median age of modern popes has been around social security age, that comment about 'cramped, wizened, philetic lungs' is tough to take without a chuckle from our side.

The pope is ONE person. The Catholic Church is diverse and HUGE. If you could say that ALL bishops or even MOST bishops were Italian for centuries, you might get my attention.

Yes, I see now that they are Coptic Orthodox. Do you object to their style of worship or would the EO Church object to their style of worship in the case of a reunion?

I am not used to that culture and that form of worship, so it is fairly new to me. I love the Ethiopian/Eritrean Orthodox worship where the faithful play drums, dance, clap, etc. (like in this video), and that's because that is the traditional worship style of my Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox brothers, so I assume the same applies within the Orthodox community in Nairobi. As per the EOs objecting to it, I am not sure, sorry. But overall, no, I do not object to that form of worship.

somewhere here we have a thread with the local EO bishop or Pope Parthenios or Theodore, I don't recall which, with a congregation of EO Kenyans, similarly with drums. HH didn't seem to object.

So dancing, singing and clapping and swaying to and fro during liturgy are OK for EO, but not for R. Catholics.

Right: and in good Apostolic fashion, consensus was nearly impossible to achieve. We've been struggling with it ever since: the west in the wider world of peoples: the east in their little ethnic enclaves.

I am amused by the fact that you think cramped, wizened, philetic lungs are somehow healthier than the lungs of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

M.

Considering that until Pope John Paul II there hadn't been a non-Italian pope for centuries and that the median age of modern popes has been around social security age, that comment about 'cramped, wizened, philetic lungs' is tough to take without a chuckle from our side.

The pope is ONE person. The Catholic Church is diverse and HUGE. If you could say that ALL bishops or even MOST bishops were Italian for centuries, you might get my attention.

But the pope is the only Roman Catholic bishop who is considreed 'Vicar of Christ on earth' and infallible in matters of faith Mary.

So it's immaterial what other RC bishops think when it comes to what the RC faithful are required to believe.Orthodoc

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Well, we're shriking, are we? Well, then, you need not bother with us insignificant folk. Leave us alone and don't include us in your union fantasies.

Unfortunately the present Masters of my Church have decided that I have to be kind to you no matter how crappy you are to me and mine.

So you show up in my realities which is a whole lot worse than any fantasy...ya know...

Guess I better not hold my breath while waiting for statistical backup on the shrinking Orthodox Catholic Church. Maybe you are talking about those within your own church who still suffer from an identity crisis after 400+ years and call themselves 'Orthodox in communion with Rome'!

Mary, you come out looking like you are blowing smoke out of your mouth (or other appendages) when you make statements like this and are unanable to back them up.

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Well, we're shriking, are we? Well, then, you need not bother with us insignificant folk. Leave us alone and don't include us in your union fantasies.

Unfortunately the present Masters of my Church have decided that I have to be kind to you no matter how crappy you are to me and mine.

So you show up in my realities which is a whole lot worse than any fantasy...ya know...

Guess I better not hold my breath while waiting for statistical backup on the shrinking Orthodox Catholic Church. Maybe you are talking about those within your own church who still suffer from an identity crisis after 400+ years and call themselves 'Orthodox in communion with Rome'!

Mary, you come out looking like you are blowing smoke out of your mouth (or other appendages) when you make statements like this and are unanable to back them up.

Orthodox

I am still waiting to find out where I can attend a Divine Liturgy in Latin as an Orthodox poster stated in post # 107.

Or...from the other side asking a variety of Orthodox priests which of the Catholic doctrines must I reject in order to be received into Orthodoxy. I've never gotten the same list twice.

Because none of us keep any such list in our head. It's the same if you ask a Roman Catholic priest. Off the top of their heads they will tell you there are requirements about various beliefs which are quite wrong since the Eastern Catholics are not required to hold them. Purgatory is one obvious example.

Well, we're shriking, are we? Well, then, you need not bother with us insignificant folk. Leave us alone and don't include us in your union fantasies.

Unfortunately the present Masters of my Church have decided that I have to be kind to you no matter how crappy you are to me and mine.

So you show up in my realities which is a whole lot worse than any fantasy...ya know...

Guess I better not hold my breath while waiting for statistical backup on the shrinking Orthodox Catholic Church. Maybe you are talking about those within your own church who still suffer from an identity crisis after 400+ years and call themselves 'Orthodox in communion with Rome'!

Mary, you come out looking like you are blowing smoke out of your mouth (or other appendages) when you make statements like this and are unanable to back them up.

Orthodox

I am still waiting to find out where I can attend a Divine Liturgy in Latin as an Orthodox poster stated in post # 107.

Ask the person directly who made the statement. I've only heard the Divine Liturgy done entirely in Latin once whch was many years ago. It was done by a former RC piest who converted to Orthodoxy as a one time thing.

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Oh Lord, Save thy people and bless thine inheritance.Grant victory to the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries.And by virtue of thy Cross preserve thy habitation.

I did a search regarding the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in Latin and was forwarded to 'Catholic Answers' of all places! Haven't been there since I was one of the original thirteen or so Orthodox Catholics kicked off for eternity!

looks like you will have to go to Turin, Italy -

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And here you go...

The Latin version of the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, translated by Erasmus of Rotterdam, and made available especially for you by those pesky Orthodox in Turin...

I did a search regarding the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in Latin and was forwarded to 'Catholic Answers' of all places! Haven't been there since I was one of the original thirteen or so Orthodox Catholics kicked off for eternity!

looks like you will have to go to Turin, Italy -

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And here you go...

The Latin version of the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, translated by Erasmus of Rotterdam, and made available especially for you by those pesky Orthodox in Turin...

Right: and in good Apostolic fashion, consensus was nearly impossible to achieve. We've been struggling with it ever since: the west in the wider world of peoples: the east in their little ethnic enclaves.

I am amused by the fact that you think cramped, wizened, philetic lungs are somehow healthier than the lungs of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

M.

Considering that until Pope John Paul II there hadn't been a non-Italian pope for centuries and that the median age of modern popes has been around social security age, that comment about 'cramped, wizened, philetic lungs' is tough to take without a chuckle from our side.

The pope is ONE person. The Catholic Church is diverse and HUGE. If you could say that ALL bishops or even MOST bishops were Italian for centuries, you might get my attention.

How about the cardinals and curia, the only bishops, besides your ueber-bishop, who count?

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Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth